11 Facts About Marguerite Steinheil

Marguerite Steinheil was later tried for the murders of her husband and mother, but was acquitted.

Marguerite Steinheil married the French painter Adolphe Steinheil, son of painter Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil, in July 1890.

Marguerite Steinheil became a prominent figure in Parisian society, and her salon was frequented by men of eminence in French political and social circles, including Charles Gounod, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Rene Lalique, Jules Massenet, Francois Coppee, Emile Zola, and Pierre Loti.

In 1897, Steinheil was introduced, at Chamonix, to President Felix Faure, who was giving an official contract to Adolphe Steinheil.

Shortly afterward, Marguerite Steinheil became Faure's mistress and was regularly ushered into the in the private quarters of the presidential Elysee Palace.

Shortly after her arrival, servants were rung for, and they found the president lying on the couch while Marguerite Steinheil adjusted her disordered clothing.

The archetypal demimondaine, after the death of Felix Faure, Marguerite Steinheil became the mistress of many other famous men.

Marguerite Steinheil initially said that she had been tied up by four black-robed strangers, three men and a woman.

Marguerite Steinheil made an attempt to frame her manservant, Remy Couillard, by concealing a small pearl which she affirmed had been stolen at the time of the murder in a pocketbook belonging to Couillard; after that fabrication was discovered, she blamed Alexandre Wolff, the son of her old housekeeper, but he was able to establish an alibi.

Marguerite Steinheil was arrested in November 1908 and taken to Saint-Lazare Prison.

Marguerite Steinheil lived at 24 Adelaide Crescent in Hove from that year and died in a nursing home in the town on 17 July 1954.